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The Team Identified Lessons About Building Analytic Foundations

• Many processes, such as critical thinking, can be employed across different missions and levels of intelligence.
• Knowledge required to provide context is lacking or limited to support Air Force missions other than irregular warfare.
• Success in operations depends on analyses conducted across multiple timelines, organizations, and levels of war. They build on one another and require integration.
• Roles and responsibilities for analysis activities to support phase 2/3 operations in air, space, and cyberspace are not well defined or practiced.

The Team Identified Lessons About Building Partnerships

• Joint, national, and partner analytic capabilities and capacities are not sufficiently leveraged.
• Guard and reserve contributions have been important but could be better utilized and are hindered by integration challenges.
• Integration of general-purpose and special operations force capabilities has resulted in more successes for both forces.

The Team Identified Lessons About Developing and Employing Skills

• The United States has repeatedly faced unplanned security challenges.
• It has been difficult to balance development of analytic expertise with career progression milestones.

The Team Identified Future Challenges

• The pace of future conflicts could stress needs for foundational intelligence and challenge readiness to conduct analysis during phase 2/3 operations.
• Analysts might need more expertise with intelligence from and for the space and cyberspace domains because operations in those domains might be more prominent.
• The volume of data and limitations on collection that anti-access and area-denial developments impose will challenge analysts.